Ultimate Frisbee?

I've been wondering if there are any other Ultimate players out there.. So does, or has anyone been an active player of Ultimate Frisbee? Currently, I'm playing with the University of Washington mens Ultimate team, the Sundodgers (website). I also have pick up games with a group of people in my home town (website).

I did a quick search of the forums and it seems that the only person who talks about and plays Ultimate is dukestreet. Is it too late to call off the 1st annual Macrumors Ultimate Tournament then?

I've been playing Ultimate for almost 10 years now - we have a Tuesday/Thursday game every week at noon by a field at work. Most of the guys who play also play in a rec league, WAFC, www.wafc.org , and I've actually captained our team for 3 or 4 seasons.

I absolutely love it, occassionally playing on Saturday mornings on the Mall in DC. Although lately I haven't been playing as much as I should. Going to miss the game today since the field is soaked and we'll rip it up if we play, the secondary field is on a slope and quite nasty, an injury waiting to happen.

I'd love to see it as an Olympic sport - it would be one of the most fun to watch, the athleticism required is spectacular to watch, even if you're not a player. Laying out for a disk, flying through the air for a second or two trying to grab it.....don't do that too much anymore, but if the ground is soft and if it has been raining its even better. You hit the ground and you slide for quite a while.

Originally posted by dukestreet I'd love to see it as an Olympic sport - it would be one of the most fun to watch, the athleticism required is spectacular to watch, even if you're not a player. Laying out for a disk, flying through the air for a second or two trying to grab it.....don't do that too much anymore, but if the ground is soft and if it has been raining its even better. You hit the ground and you slide for quite a while.

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I would have to agree that laying out for a disk is one of the most satisfying things you can do in any sport. Well, it is for me anyway . I think it would do really well in the olympics. I can just imagine an entire stadium of fans cheering for a guy that made a great layout. That would be cool

Laying out for a disk, even in the endzone is great - but sometimes laying out for D is even better. One game a couple seasons ago we had a turn over at the goalline, the other team stacked it up in the endzone and called out for one player to make a cut (simple play that works 99% of the time). My guy cut, I chased him, but he was a little lazy thinking I wouldn't lay out for D. I dove through the air and smacked the disk down, friggin awesome. And before they could even regroup from what they had considered an easy score, I was halfway down field, all alone, sprinting to the endzone. The handler who threw the disk to me didn't get it all the way, but we ended up scoring that point.

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